Passage - Ceramics at the Hyatt, Chennai

Passage, my entry piece on the ground floor at the Hyatt is a portal for change. It is a form of great strength, regional in nature. Fashioned from 17 tons of clay, Passage , rises to an epic 21 feet. Enter through the abandoned and graffiti - covered arch open to a new, inclusive world - view. Passage invites us to collaborate in a progressive effort towards a balanced future. The text . Fragments from a quote: “The American lifestyle is not up for negotiation.” Former U.S. President at the Rio Conference on Climate Change, 1991. This mantra has now been adopted by India and China, modern leaders of the consumer charge. Recognizing the groundbreaking work done in Auroville to reinvigorate forest cover with Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF), Robust Hotels and Hyatt have, in a very unconventional move, included TDEF as a significant component in the hotel landscape planting, enhancing the regional character of the hotel experience. Passage announces ceramic as a medium for serious outdoor sculpture. Visitors to Golden Bridge Pottery often find an oasis of calm in the rapidly expanding din of 21st century urban chaos. At the center of this calm resides an extraordinary creativity. We hope that some of that experience will be communicated through this garden at the Hyatt, a space where culture is elevated by the recognition of man’s role and responsibility as shaper—as pollinator—of our earth, our home.